NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1845MHz vs 1777MHz)

Lower TDP (110W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +145%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 OEM

5.196 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

Radeon RX 5500 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Oct 2019

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

22

3584

Shading Units

1408

112

TMUs

88

48

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Navi 14

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XT (215-0932220)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

12 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

110W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.5

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